AuthorTopic: Toys of yesteryear (Read 30025 times)

My brother is 2 years older than me & one christmas we got bikes, I can't have been that old because mine was only a 24 inch wheel but it was a brand new one...his 26 inch boys bike was second hand....ha!!then a couple of years later he got his own back & got a drop handlebar bike with dinamo lights (the ones that went out when you stopped pedalling) I was jealous for years & knicked off with it whenever I could much to his annoyance.

Now as an avid mountain biker riding all over the country off road I wouldn't touch a drop handlebar (road bike) with skinny tyres at all.

Oh & he has just turned 50 years old and doesn't know I've STILL got his favourite teddy (that he got for his 4th birthday when he had his tonsils out ) in my cupboard upstairs....................

We had our Star yacht delivered today so we took it to the West Shore to sail it, must be around 40 years since I sailed a boat there and it was a Star yacht exactly like this one (my thanks to this forum for reminding me of this ) D) D)

No it did'nt sink (solid wooden hull) it was a strong wind though no string, just Helen with a pole with a hook on the end and if that did'nt work a pair of wellys in tne boot L0L The boat sailed very well, but they are not cheap on Ebay, everyone seems to want one D)

Yorkie

One of my favourite toys, if one can actually call it a toy (more a plaything) was Plasticine.

I had a rather warped mind and a great interest in Black Magic so I used to make representations of people I didn't like and then stick pins in hoping that the Voodoo spirits would take effect and give them a pane in that particular place. Never in nasty places, just things like fingers, arm, feet, legs and that sort of thing. WWW

I still do it nowadays but have no idea if it works, has anyone on the Forum felt any twinges lately??? L0L L0L